This was written (1737) to be sung after a sermon on "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God."
"My God, and is Thy table spread?"—No. 861.
This is inserted as a Communion Hymn in the "Prayer Book of the Church of England." It was introduced by a University printer about half a century ago. He was a Dissenter, and filled up the blank leaves at the end of the Prayer Book with hymns he thought would be acceptable. The authorities did not interfere, and the hymns thus took their place. In some books there are two hymns by Doddridge, one probably by Wesley, one by Sternhold or J. Mardley, and Bishop Ken's Morning and Evening Hymns, altered and abridged. The other hymn by Doddridge in the Prayer Book is:
"High let us swell our tuneful notes."
It is not in the "New Congregational Hymn Book."
"Shepherd of Israel, bend Thine ear."—No. 844.
This was composed "at a Meeting of Ministers at Bedworth during their long vacancy, April 10, 1735."
"And will the great eternal God."—No. 884,
is headed, "On the Opening of a new Meeting-place at Oakham," from Psalm lxxxvii. 4.
"Let Zion's watchmen all awake."—No. 893.
This was written when the poet was from home—the name of the place cannot be deciphered—on the occasion of an ordination, October 21, 1736.
"Interval of grateful shade."—No. 943.
This hymn consists of twenty lines, taken from a piece of seventy lines, and entitled, "An Evening Hymn, to be used when composing one's self to sleep."
"Thou glorious Sovereign of the skies."—No. 916.
